#Also great erasermic content folks

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Reposting my Punk Nemuri art from @nartothelar 's Prep Punk AU because I need to bring to attention how frickin good their AUs are

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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥listen to me. I don't just want one. Or two. I want every single unpopular opinion u got on tododeku or todoiideku. 🔥 to infinity baby recipro burst this shit. -beleaguered iida stan

ah. ahhhhh. i am always scared of talking shit about fan favorites, because there is always that inevitable backlash from people who get defensive because i “attack” something they like. so before i start, i have to tack a disclaimer onto this.

GIANT DISCLAIMER: tododeku is a fantastic dynamic! i have nothing against their dynamic. there is nothing inherently wrong with being a fan of tododeku, but i feel like a lot of the tododeku content in the fandom isn’t genuine to who izuku and shouto actually are.

that being said, let’s begin!

i used to indulge in tododeku content in 2016, back when i was first into bnha, back when i wasn’t so disillusioned by shipping. mostly because i couldn’t find any better stories to read. the two of them have a genuinely good dynamic, and i definitely get why people ship them. but hooooooly shit. a good dynamic does not mean a good ship. let me just clarify that i personally use “dynamic” to refer to the genuine potential that two or more characters have for a relationship (think canon), while i use “ship” to refer to how fandom interprets that dynamic (think fanon). and wow, does the bnha fandom sure kill the appeal of tododeku.honestly, most of my issue with tododeku is that it fits a very certain category of ship. this issue isn’t really something specific to it. hell, my favorite ship in the entire goddamn world fits into this category. and it sucks for both tododeku and my favorite ship in the entire goddamn world, because they’re both genuinely interesting dynamics that just get run into the ground by the fandom.and y’know what, i’m just gonna call this type of ship the cookie cutter ship because that’s exactly what the fandom does to the dynamic. it turns it into a cookie cutter relationship. stick the dough into a cookie cutter, and out comes a really nicely shaped cookie. gorgeous, really. clean edges and all of the cookies have the same shape. which is great for cookies, i suppose. hell if i know, i’ve never used cookie cutters.

but for a ship? for a ship, you don’t want the same damn ship 50 times over in 50 different fandoms. when you stick a ship into that nice cookie cutter template for what a relationship should be, you get rid of all of that so-called “excess” dough that makes the dynamic unique. i mean, sure you don’t have to put as much thought into how the relationship would work if you stick it in that cookie cutter, but it ruins the entire goddamn ship 9 times out of 10. and this, of course, is how you get a ship that doesn’t match the canonical dynamic. fanon vs. canon and what not.

bizarre metaphor that probably only makes sense to me, but oh well.

now, there’s more to a cookie cutter ship, often times. these things aren’t inherent to cookie cutter ships, but they sure are common in a lot of them.

it’s kind of like a “default” ship. like, everyone and their mother ships it to at least some extent.

if a genfic has background relationships, chances are that this one is one of them.

you can sort of tell when people making content for it actually like the ship versus when people ship the ship just because it’s the most convenient ship.

it is proooobably the most popular ship in the fandom.

of course, it’s not just any dynamic that can be turned into a cookie cutter ship. i don’t really know why certain ships in fandoms are cookie cutter ships, i’d have to go on another plane of reality to know that. but, i can definitely explain why certain ships aren’t cookie cutter ships. my best example from the bnha fandom in particular? erasermic. those two are so goddamn unconventional that you just can’t stick them into a cookie cutter. it. it doesn’t work. so yeah, is it every ship? no, but a lot of fandoms have that one ship. you know the one, don’t lie to yourself.

(can you tell i’m trying my hardest not to say the word fujoshi.)

to speak more specifically about tododeku…for some reason, bnha fans cannot write izuku or shouto for shit. it starts feeling like some tododeku fans only like the idea of tododeku but don’t actually care about who izuku and shouto are as people. it’s not even specific to tododeku fans, there’s just a widespread butchering of izuku and shouto’s characters in the bnha fandom. i could explain why i think this is, and how exactly these two characters are butchered, but a.) ii would like it to be its own post, and b.) i kind of stay away from fan content with these two characters because of this, so i’m not sure how to describe what i barely see.

final reason i don’t like tododeku? the way that todoroki’s abuse is treated. i’m guessing this is just a problem with a majority of todoroki content, but i remember enough from my tododeku days in 2016 to know that there is a problem. fandoms just do not know how to write abuse survivors. his abuse is mostly either treated as an excuse for excessively painful angst, a reason to butcher his character, or a chance to woobify him. maybe because people have this skewed idea of what an abuse survivor should be.

i guess that’s about all i have to say regarding tododeku. good dynamic, but the fandom ruins it.

as for the todoiideku salt? well. okay, it really isn’t that much, it’s just me being that iida stan yet again. maybe i’m imagining it, and this is kind of vague speculation. but i’ll say it anyways. there are four types of todoiideku fans. those that started shipping tododeku first, those that started shipping iideku first, those that started shipping todoiida first, and those that went straight to todoiideku like the galaxy brained folk they are. the majority, unsurprisingly, are those that started shipping tododeku first. but when you’re in this camp, there’s a stronger chance that the reason you started shipping todoiideku was because you realized “oh right, iida exists, and i am a fool who didn’t realize that todoroki, iida, and midoriya all spur along each other’s developments, not just todoroki and midoriya.” which i can completely respect. there’s nothing wrong with being one of these people.

but the problem is that quite a few fans kind of just wedge iida into there, and it’s reaaaaally obvious that they don’t really give a shit about iida. there’s nothing sadder than seeing a character be the third wheel in a ship that they are part of. it feels more like “tododeku plus iida i guess”. maybe this is just me looking into things too much, but i have heard at least four different todoiideku fans who are also iida stans tell me that they’ve seen this happen themselves. so i think it’s safe enough to say that it’s a thing, and i wouldn’t be surprised if this speculation on my part is an actual genuine phenomenon.